Is it possible to completely ignore namespaces during deserialization?

[lamba92]

I have my data class that has:

@Serializable
@XmlSerialName(
    value = "project",
    namespace = POM_XML_NAMESPACE,
)
data class ProjectObjectModel(...)

But, some very old pom.xml do not provide any namespace at all! For example ch.qos.logback:logback-parent:0.9.7 starts with:

<?xml version="1.0"?><project>
  <parent>
    <artifactId>logback-parent</artifactId>
    <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
    <version>0.9.7</version>
  </parent>
  ...

Nowadays it is not really needed to add all this metadata since the classes themselves in which one is deserializing are the specifications! It either fits them or not.

Would it be possible to ignore errors like this one?

[pdvrieze]

At the moment there is no built-in standard way to handle missing namespaces. You could do it in the policy, but it is probably easier to have a wrapper around XmlReader that replaces the default (empty) namespace with the POM namespace for tags (but not attributes as the attributes are not qualified).

[lamba92]

Could you please show an example of both cases? Or at least a snippet to try to understand in which direction to go